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DiscoveryofaNewFireflyoftheGenusLuciola(Coleoptera,
Lampyridae) fromKume-jimaoftheRyukyuIslands
MasatakaSAT0
Biological Laboratory,NagoyaWomen'sUniversity,
Mizuho-ku,Nagoya,467Japan
and
Masaaki KIMURA
Tomari1-35-1,Naha,900Japan
Abstract AremarkablenewfireflyofthegenusLtlc・tola,discoveredonIs. Kun、e-
jimawest ofOkinawa,thecentral Ryukyus,isdescribed under the name of L1lcl'ola
owadai. It is related to L kagi'a'IaMATsUMURAfromTaiwanand L. c・/a・,aOLIVER
fromVietnam.
At theendof April, 1993, Dr. M. 0wADAand thejunior author madeashort
collecting trip to Kume-jima Island for a research of the zygaenidmoth Eterusla
aedea, under thesponsorshipof the FujiwaraNatural HistoryFoundation, Tokyo.
Kume-jimaisasmallislandlyingintheEast ChinaSeaabout 92kmwestofOkinawa
Island,thecentral Ryukyus. Mal(ingalighttrapcollectingonthe27thofApril,the
juniorauthor foundalargestrangefirefly,whichresembledingeneralappearancethe
Japanese firefly, Lticiolac・'uclata MoTscHULsKY, thoughcoloration of thepronotum
wasmarkedlydifferent. Thenightcollectingwasnotsosuccessfulthat thelight trap
wasset at about 10:00pm, andwhen themercury lampwasput out, they founda
largeswarmingoffirefliesaboveasmallstream.
ThisdiscoverywasimmediatelynoticedtotheseniorauthorbyDr. 0wADA,but
he was unable to believe it until heactually saw thespecimens. Thejunior author
continuedtomakeobservationofthefirefly,andconfirmedthatthelarvaewereaquatic
1ike Lucio/a c1・uclata. Afteracarefulexaminationofthespecimens,theauthorshave
concludedthatthefireflyisamemberoftypicalLuc1ola,andisrelatedtoaTaiwanese
species. It willbedescribedasnewtosciencein thefollowinglines.
The authors aremuch indebted to Dr. Shun-Ichi UENo of the National Science
Museum(Nat. Hist ), Tokyo, for critical readingofthemanuscript of thispaper, to
Dr. Mamoru OwADAof thesamemuseum for his kindsupport instudyingon the
remarkablespecies, and toDr. Katsuyoshi IsHIDA, MeijoUniversity, Nagoya, for
drawingfinelinesketches.
160 MasatakaSAToand Masaaki KIMURA
LuciolaowadaiM.SAToetKIMURA,sp
nov
(Figs.1-2)
Male. Bodyelongate,moderatelyconvexandcloselycovered with dark brown
hairsallover,except for thehairsofpronotumwhichareyellowishorange. Head,
elytra,antennaeandlegsblack;metasternumandabdominalsegmentsblackishbrown
exceptfor5thand6thvisiblesegmentswhicharewhitishyellow;pronotum,scutellum,
baseofelytra1suture,protrochantersandmesosternumorangeyellow.
Headrathersmall;vertexmoreor lessconcave,closelyanddistinctlypunctate;
eyes large, prominent, thedistance between them about 1 2 times as broad as the
breadthofeacheye;antennaefiliform,ralativelengthsofrespectivesegments2:1:2:
2.5: 2: 2.2: 2: 2:2: 1.8:2. Pronotum about 16timesasbroadaslong, broadest at
thebase; frontanglesrounded,hindanglesproducedbackwards withobtuseapices;
surfacecloselyandstronglypunctateandfurnishedwithmedic-longitudinalimpression.
Scutellum largeandsubtriangular,withobtuseapex, andcoveredwithclosestrong
punctures. Elytraabout13timesasbroadaspronotum,about2.5timesaslongas
breadth,thesidessubpara11e1;surfacecloselyandroughlypunctateandprovidedwith
4 costae
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Fi9. 1. Luciola o、adai M. SATo et
KIMURA,sp
nov.
New Lilo・l(/afromKume-jimaoftheRyukyu Islands l61
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Fig 2. Malegenitaliaof l,do/a ell・adal M
SAT0et KIMURA,Sp nov.
Apexofsixthabdominalsegmentslightlyemarginateoneachlateralside.
Malegenitalia: basal lobeshort;median lobeslender, inwardly reflexedinven-
tralaspect,withroundedapex; lateral lobemoreor lessstout,twofoldinbasalarea
andprovidedwithsomebristlesattheouterpreapex, theapexbeinggentlyrounded
andnotreachingthelevel of that ofmedianlobe.
Length(fromanteriormarginofpronotumtoapicesofelytra): 12.7-14.5mm;
breadth: 4.8-5.5mm.
Female. Almost identical with themale, but 5th abdominalsegment iswhitish
yellow.
Length(fromanterior margin of pronotum toapicesof elytra): l5.2-16.0mm;
breadth 5.8-6.4mm.
Holotype: Shirasegawa, Mt. Uegusuku, Is. Kume-jima, Ryukyu Islands, 27-
,
IV-1993, M. 0wADAleg. Allotype: ,samedataas for the holotype. Paratypes:
l8 ,samedataasfor theholotype;32 1 ,samelocalityas for theholotype,
,
27-IV-l993, M. KIMuRAleg: 5 15 , same locality, 8-V-1993, M. KIMURA
,
leg.
Thehole-,alto-andsomeparatypesarepreservedinthecollectionoftheDepart-
ment of Zoology, National Science Museum (Nat. Hist ), Tokyo. The remaining
paratypesaredistributed tothecollectionsoftheEntomologicalLaboratory,Ehime
University, theEntomological Laboratory, theUniversityof theRyukyus,Nagoya
Women'sUniversity,NaturalHistoryMuseumand Institute,Chiba,YokosukaNatura1
l62 MasatakaSAToand Masaaki KIMuRA
HistoryMuseum,andM. KIMURA.
Notes. ThepresentnewspeciesisrelatedtoL kagiatlaMATsUMURAfromTaiwan
andL.claraOLIvIERfromVietnam,but itcanbedistinguishedfromthembythefol-
lowingpoints:different formofpronotum,darkenedcolour ofventralsurface,yel-
lowishorangeportionofelytralsuturerestrictedtothebase,andcharacteristicfeature
ofmalegenitalia.
Thespecificnameisgiveninhonourof Dr. MamoruOwADAwhoisoneof the
discoverersofthenewspecies.
要 約
佐藤正孝・木村正明: 琉球列島久米島産Luciola属の1新種. - 1993年4月に, 大和田守?'ii
士と木村によって久米島で得られた Luciola属のホタルは, 台湾の L kagianaMATsuMuRAおよ
びウ'ェトナムの L etara OLIVERに類似の新極とわかったので, クメジマポタルL.o、vadai M.
SAT0 et KIMuRA と命名して, ここに記載した.
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